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"Let us follow a corpuscle on its journey"

posted 7 years ago by clarklkzy
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When Professor Wagstaff (Groucho) is giving a lecture in the classroom, he looks at a large diagram of the internal human body and says "Let us follow a corpuscle on its journey". Then he quickly puts on a hat and picks up a suitcase and starts walking away, then says "Oh my mistake, I thought I was the corpuscle".
I never got the joke. Does anyone know what it's supposed to mean?

[–] Beau_Buffet (324) 2 years ago

Just an absurdist take on the fact that vulgarized science often use the image of some scientific element "going on a journey".